Leadership & Management

The Senate Democratic leadership wants to add the three-and-a-half-year Medicare physician fee-fix into its tax extenders bill, according to a report by the Hill.

A new tax bill unveiled by Senate Democratic leaders lacks an extension of federal Cobra premium subsidies for laid-off employees, which ran out June 1, according to a report in Business Insurance.

Standard & Poor's has upgraded $19.96 million long-term, fixed-rate bonds from Carolina Medical Center-Union in Monroe, N.C., to A+ with a stable outlook, according to a report in the Charlotte Business Journal.

Fitch Ratings has assigned an AA- rating with outlook stable to McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, S.C., for a total of $127 million in new bonds, according to a release from Fitch.

More than 90 percent of hospitals in a study do not have fully inclusive policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, according to a release from the Human Rights Campaign.

Frederick (Maryland) Memorial Healthcare System lost $1 million in just one month during the fall 2008 — a loss that was unheard of for the system and due largely to a volume drop on the heels of the financial market…

Denny DeNarvaez, an executive at Sisters of Mercy Health System in Chesterfield, Mo., will become president and CEO of five-hospital Wellmont Health System, based in Kingsport, Tenn., according to a report by the St. Louis Business Journal.

The Louisiana Senate approved a bill that would provide additional funding to rural hospitals in the state by directing the state's Department of Health and Hospitals to create a program to support access to these facilities, according to a report…

Washington, D.C.'s United Medical Center in the city's southeast area, is scheduled to be auctioned off on July 9 unless the city can reach an agreement with the hospital's current owner, Specialty Hospitals of America, according to a report by…

Fifty-four members of Congress this week asked HHS to delay implementation of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital audit and reporting rule to plan year 2012, according to a report by AHA News Now.